
Esther heard someone calling her, she recognized her voice. That man's voice, Vard. He ran into hiding, his body trembling.
Drrtts... Drrt...
He saw it was a call from his client, "Hello, yes. Tell Mr. Xavier, wait 5 minutes. okay." Esther took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. "It's okay, let's work."
Esther opened the door of the room that Mr. Xavier had sent, it was a meeting room. "Hello, I'm coming."
Xavier walked over, the gentle-faced man reaching out his big hand at Esther. "Welcome, Esther."
Esther received a helping hand from her client, she had met the man often and the man often sent her flowers, she said to thank him. "Mr Xavier." He smiled kindly.
Xavier nodded, "I'm sorry, I have to meet here. I just finished a meeting with Hong Kong. Let's sit..."
"It's okay, let's talk about your finances." Esther walked up to the chair and sat there. "Hmm. This report is not appropriate..."
Esther began to explain and continued to discuss Xavier's finances but the 33-year-old man just stared at Esther's face without blinking.
"Sir...?" Esther only realized that the man was staring at her unblinkingly.
Xavier was shocked, feeling like a caught thief. "Ahh... You are too beautiful Esther, I just... ah what did I say?!" racau the man made the assistant and the secretary who stood behind him giggling could not help but laugh amusedly they heard their superior turned stuttering uncharacteristically.
Esther's face was expressionless, she turned her face away.
"You angry, Esther?" ask Xavier carefully.
Esther shook her head, she turned her head back to the man sitting in front of her. "Do you like me, so that's why you send me flowers so often?" she is not a plain and innocent girl anymore, her innocence has long been ruined replaced by self-regard, she is forced to mature before her time. Since a dark night 8 years ago, Esther's view of the world is now very different.
Xavier was flabbergasted, unable to believe the woman who was much younger than him asked bluntly. "I-i. ekhm. You two, get out!" he told the two men standing behind.
"Don't! Let the two of them here, I'm sorry Mr. Xavier, but I'm a little traumatized if I have to be in the same room with a man. Honestly, my trust in a man is very thin." Esther.
"alright. I will also be honest, during our meeting these few months I felt something about you. So, if you don't have a boyfriend or partner yet, can I approach you?" xavier to the point.
"I don't have a boyfriend or a partner but I already have a son. When my son was 7, I gave birth when I was 19. I'm a costing victim, and trauma still looms over me. So, do you still like me?"
Xavier breathed in surprise, the man fell silent in shock.
"Boss?" the Assisten awakened the Boss from the man's shock.
"Ah, where's Esther?"
"He's gone..."
"Damn it! She must have misunderstood, I just felt shock instead of not accepting her as a mother who already had children!" Xavier immediately stood chasing out.
The man ran towards the elevator with the button and the elevator door open, Esther was inside. Xavier's breath gasped for running, "Esther, wait. I haven't finished talking and haven't answered you yet."
Esther's eyes widened to see Xavier chasing her.
Xavier entered and the elevator door closed but suddenly the elevator door opened again, the figure of the man Esther wanted to avoid for 8 years stepped into the elevator.
Degh's! Unknowingly Esther's hand pulled Xavier's suit pulling the man's large tall body against her to cover herself.
"What's up, Esther?" xavier asked, but seeing that Esther's body was trembling she finally kept quiet but due to her instinct she turned her head back to glance towards the man who might be around 40 years old and up.
"Taylor, I have to get that Cctv any way. I'm sure it's Queena, I know she's been alive all along. I've checked her ashes and it's not her, but the Doctor who identified Queena has disappeared. All this time I had trouble finding the whereabouts of the Doctor and also Queena. Soppie and Rossi don't seem to know about the fire, they've been asked with threats."
"Yes, President."
Ting!
The elevator door opened, Esther peeked at Vard through the side of Xavier's body. The man who had been his Daddy stepped out of the elevator. Instantly his body fell limp, his knees trembling.
Xavier swiftly caught Esther's limp body, "You okay? What's up, Esther?"
Esther tried to stand up, she propped up her trembling legs with all her might. "It's okay, my head's a little dizzy. Sorry to bother you."
"But your forehead is sweating, your face is pale. I didn't mean anything, but accept my help. I'll get you."
"All right, thank you."
Esther receives help from Xavier, entering in the man's embrace. They got out of the elevator through the lobby and walked out of the hotel.